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Art in a Disrupted World Poland 1939–1949
ISBN: PB: 9788364177750, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, June 2021
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 colour plates
Not for sale in Poland! With Art in a Disrupted World, art historian Agata Pietrasik presents a study of artistic practices that emerged in Poland during and after World War II. Pietrasik highlights examples of artworks by a number of Polish-born a...
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£24,00
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Bound by Creativity How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged
ISBN: PB: 9780226784694, ISBN: HB: 9780226784557, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
While our traditional view of creative work might lead us to think of artists as solitary visionaries, the creative process is in fact deeply social. From those trying to land their first solo show to those with dozens of museum exhibitions, artists...
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£72,00
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Model Cases On Canonical Research Objects and Sites
ISBN: PB: 9780226780832, ISBN: HB: 9780226780665, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 tables
We all know scientists study a predictable set of organisms when performing research, whether they be mice, fruit flies, or less commonly known but widely used species of snail or worm. But when we think of the so-called humanistic social sciences, w...
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£22,00
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£76,00
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Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood
ISBN: HB: 9780226629667, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones, 9 line drawings
The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's precocity is so familiar as to be taken for granted. In scholarship and popular culture, Mozart the Wunderkind is often seen as belonging to a category of childhood all by himself. But treating the young compose...
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£44,00
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Northern Garden Symphony Combining Hardy Perennials for Blooms All Season
ISBN: PB: 9781602234413, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Put the power of a garden planning pro to work for you! Northern Garden Symphony offers explanations and illustrations of the sequential blooms of ornamental perennials as a tool for garden design. The idea of sequential blooming, Fairbanks-famous au...
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Objects in Air Artworks and Their Outside around 1900
ISBN: HB: 9780226764771, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 69 halftones
Margareta Ingrid Christian unpacks the ways in which, around 1900, art scholars, critics, and choreographers wrote about the artwork as an actual object in real time and space, surrounded and fluently connected to the viewer through the very air we b...
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£36,00
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Crooked Cats Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene
ISBN: PB: 9780226771922, ISBN: HB: 9780226771892, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
How do humans live near big cats – tigers, leopards, and lions – that may or may not be predatory? Though they are popularly known as "man eaters", this new book by anthropologist Nayanika Mathur reframes them as cats that have gone off the straight...
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£66,00
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On the Spirit of Rights
ISBN: PB: 9780226794303, ISBN: HB: 9780226588988, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
334 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 5 tables
By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did "rights" come to justify such mea...
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Deke Dangle Dive Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781933880853, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, May 2021
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
What is a person to do upon finding out that his older brother has six months to live? What is a father to tell his young sons about the everyday violence, inequities, and injustices of the world? What is a husband to do when confronted with his dome...
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£15,00
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Urban Condition
ISBN: PB: 9788024632933, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2021
300 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The first installment in Karolinum's new Vaclav Havel Series – which aims to continue the philosophical discourse of that thinker, playwright, dissident, and president – this book asks whe...
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